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Brief Comment—How to Become Attractive

     To say that a woman is beautiful means one of three main types of beauty: either artificial beauty, natural beauty, or sensory beauty. Artificial beauty is that which deceives by the artifices of face power and rouge. Natural beauty is a healthy beauty when blood circulation is good and the appearance is fresh and lively. Sensory beauty is that of a beautiful heart which one for some reason or another respects and admires.
     Women nowadays indiscriminately apply face powder and touches of rouge to the cheeks and mouth in an effort to show themselves to be beautiful, and that is because they forget there is a beauty above that of artificial beauty. Without using the absurdly expensive cosmetics that abound today, there is a way to become beautiful from the core.
     Beauty from the core of one’s being is healthy beauty. Healthy beauty is a physical body in which the blood purifies. Such a condition is true beauty. The ways to obtain such kind of beauty are to receive the Johrei of the Japan Kannon Church as well as to not ingest drugs of any kind. Skin that lacks luster, wrinkled as that of the elderly, poor blood circulation, and the symptoms of dropsy and swelling, all these conditions result from the frequent use of pharmaceuticals. It is to hide these conditions that women these days indiscriminately use cosmetics. Indeed, a woman cannot truly be called beautiful unless she has a heart that is beautiful as well. This is where faith enters. To demonstrate, those who join the Japan Kannon Church, become so beautiful as time passes that they are not recognized by relatives and acquaintances.

 Hikari, Issue 25, September 3, 1949
translated by cynndd

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“Bijin ni Naru Hô” which originally appeared in the newspaper Hikari, Issue 25, on September 3, 1949, has appeared before in translation. Citation is given below for reference.

“The Way to Be Beautiful,” True Health, 1987, page 36.

“The Way to Be Beautiful,” Teachings of Meishu-sama, Volume Four, 2007, page 8.